DAILY MAIL
A mosque has been referred to the charity watchdog after it’s imam made misogynistic comments about women.
Mustafa Abu Rayyan was holding a panel discussion in Birmingham when he argued that a woman’s ‘number one’ responsibility was to ‘follow, obey and respect her husband’.
Adding that they have an ‘obligation’ to have sex with their husbands and should not strive to become ‘career women’.
The event took place at Green Lane Masjid, a mosque and community centre, registered as a charity to help advance ‘the Islamic faith for the public benefit’.
Following on from the highly controversial comments the National Secular Society referred the mosque to the Charity Commission, arguing: ‘If charities can spout misogyny under the banner of advancing religion, charity law is in dire need of reform.’
Mustafa Abu Rayyan was holding a panel discussion in Birmingham when he argued that a woman’s ‘number one’ responsibility was to ‘follow, obey and respect her husband’
Following on from the highly controversial comments the National Secular Society has referred the Mosque to the Charity Commission, as the panel was hosted in Green Lane Masjid and Community Centre, a registered charity
The community centre within its role as a charity also offers a ‘specialist-trained Muslim female drop-in support worker’ and a ‘free and confidential helpline’ for vulnerable women needing emotional and housing support.
Mr Abu Rayyan said in a video uploaded to the Green Lane Masjid’s YouTube account that it was ‘important’ and ‘an obligation’ on a wife ‘that she makes herself available for her husband as it relates to the physical intimacy’.
During the discussion Mr Abu Rayyan and two other panelists also discuss the ‘ideal Muslim home’.
The imam said: ‘I never advise sisters to go and work just for their career. This is very narrow-minded.
‘My beloved sister, you are a wife and a mother, or you’re a wife and you soon may become a mother. Look at yourself from then onwards as a wife and a mother, not as a career woman.’
